Example sentences of "[prep] a [noun sg] as [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were as likely to have followed the lead of a gentleman as of an artisan . ’ |
| 2 | Similarly , he has the rights and obligations of a buyer as against the person from whom he purchases his raw materials . |
| 3 | No , not enough of a clue as to whether these were the same depredations Johnson had deplored : Elgin had suffered marauders more than once . |
| 4 | Fourthly , we may single out what is ordinarily called an event or change , partly because of its brief duration , and thereby distinguished from what is called a standing condition — say the movement of a lever as against its tensile strength . |
| 5 | His leather jacket was adorned with the face of a screaming woman symbolising , according to the caption below , Chaos , and his own blunt and pitted features suggested to Preston not so much those of a bird as of a pit bull terrier with acne . |
| 6 | So if a word , the word , the cars , occur at the end of a sentence as in erm , I went to the showroom and saw the cars full stop . |
| 7 | If however the means used is simply the issuing of a request as in ( 176 ) , then the causee can either be represented as being brought to perform some action as a result of the request ( get ) or as doing something under the influence or authority of the causer ( have ) . |
| 8 | In the absence of a ruling as to whether Airtours ' offer is to be referred to the Monopolies Commission , the City watchdog said it had decided to ‘ freeze ’ day 39 of the bid . |
| 9 | This increases the significance of the information system to that of a recommender as to what to do based on value and choices but leaves the final decision to the manager . |
| 10 | There was something of a problem as to whom to appoint in command of the army whilst the Regent was absent . |
| 11 | ‘ With regard to the discretion of a judge as to costs , which is given by Order LXV , r. 1 , of the Rules of the Supreme Court , it is , I think , common practice for parties to make their own agreements as to the costs … and such agreements are perfectly valid and enforceable . |
| 12 | Second , but perhaps not so much in the form of a survival as in that of a revival , Russian Formalism had a significant part to play in the development of Parisian structuralism during the 1960s ( particularly in the work of Todorov and Genette ) . |
| 13 | He held his temper on a pretty short fuse , and it was as liable to explode in the face of a headmaster as in that of a dustman . |
| 14 | He was strong and his resources of stamina enabled him to play just as forcefully in the final ten minutes of a game as in the first ten . |
| 15 | The preliminary enquiry of a seller as to what other persons occupy the property is one precaution . |
| 16 | However , there is something of a mystery as to what caused that origin . |
| 17 | It was difficult to be part of the life of a man who was as much of a loner as at any time . |
| 18 | It should be apparent from this case that in assessing what damages are recoverable ( i.e. within the rules in Hadley v. Baxendale ) for breach of a term as to quality , one does not ask simply ‘ What type of damage could the seller at the time of the contract have predicted ? ’ |
| 19 | I was now at a bit of a loss as to what to do next , so I wandered upstairs to the room that housed the books covering my subject , just to check up on a few things . |
| 20 | The certainty of a lease as to its continuance must be ascertainable either by the express limitation of the parties at the time the lease is made , or by reference to some collateral act which may , with equal certainty , measure the continuance of it , otherwise it is void . ’ |
| 21 | Next bit , information and figures wh erm we erm it 's a bit of a background as to what world trade is and how big it is . |
| 22 | The moral itself can be something of a joke as in Russell Hoban 's story ( 1974 ) where Tom , through his commitment to ‘ fooling around ’ thwarts Captain Najork and his hired sportsmen . |
| 23 | But I do n't have much of a picture as to how the team are playing . |
| 24 | This capacity to generate the same response to part of a pattern as to the whole of it is one of the merits of network systems ( see chapter 7 ) . |
| 25 | However , I can not find authority that the decision of a doctor as to the existence or refusal of consent is sufficient protection , if the law subsequently decides otherwise . |
| 26 | I stood fearfully against a board as in rapid succession the knives flashed through the air and encircled my body . |
| 27 | The evaluation was carried out in order to provide information for a decision as to whether or not this type of material could be used for the user instruction programme at Chalmers University Library . |
| 28 | The search to find and restore the Polish state led Polish politicians to mistake the restoration of the state for a decision as to the social and political form the state should take . |
| 29 | For a clue as to what might have been going on , we turn again to the Chinese system of feng shui , which was mentioned in Chapter 4 . |
| 30 | Helen and I stared at Jamila 's face in the gloom for a clue as to what she was going to do . |